5 of the best health apps

08 Jun 2011

Sniffles? Find out if its mild man flu or full-blown plague with a quick visit to Dr App...

NHS Direct app

NHS Direct
£free, Android/iOS
Delivering health assessments on the go for hypocondriacs, NHS Direct lets you check whether you’ve got E.coli or bubonic plague without having to fire up your PC. Sadly, it refuses to confirm man flu or dole out sympathy and chicken soup.

Pocket First Aid & CPR app

Pocket First Aid & CPR
$3.99, Android/iOS
Had an accident? There’s an app for that. First aid advice and an inventory of your first-aid kit are at your fingertips with Pocket First Aid, as well as allergy information and emergency contacts for the medics. Of course, all this assumes your Galaxy S II survives what your body didn’t.

Endomondo app

Endomondo
£free, Android/iOS
Endomondo’s sports tracking app lets you challenge energetic friends to a GPS-fuelled, calorie-counting duel. It’ll give you audio pep talks as you pound the pavement and share the results with your Facebook crowd. Yes, even if you lose.

US Army Survival Guide app

US Army Survival Guide
£free, Android/$2.99, iOS
Turn yourself from smooth urbanite to wild, grunting man of the prairie with a simple app download. Before you know it, you’ll be camouflaged to the nines, identifying poisonous snakes and berries and grappling with your next meal. Possibly.

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor
£120 + free app, iOS
Recreate the feeling of being a hospital in-patient without nasty side effects like fatal drug-resistant superbugs and doctors squirting chemicals into your veins. The Withings Blood Pressure Monitor lets you lie in your own bed feeling sorry for yourself while checking your vital stats several times a day.

Comments

  1. imwilliam

    1 year ago

    These applications are astounding. Each one has been designed keeping specific needs in mind. Many advanced techniques and treatment procedure are emerging. In drug rehab clinics modern treatment facilities are provided. I live in Arizona and here we have a drug rehab. In drug rehab Arizona different treatment facilities are offered to patients keeping their specific needs in mind.

  2. its_me

    1 year ago

    I personally preferred Withings Blood Pressure Monitor as it helps you keep your blood pressure in check. If more such gadgets are invented then we will be able to keep our health problems in check. Even in drug rehabs new advanced methods are being applied to treat patients. One such method is applied at Washington drug rehab centers, which provide a holistic treatment to the drug addict.

  3. Macyque

    1 year ago

    there is anotehr one that i use to keep track of my menstrul cycle and i think it should be the top 5 too.
    - May, a Dvd Cloner Reviews writer

  4. priceritemart

    1 year ago

    i like the NHS theme where can i get that?
    - michael, a womens perfume collector

  5. dadshop

    1 year ago

    i agree! i use the blood pressure one very often.

    - June, a Christmas gifts expert

  6. misterloftcraft

    1 year ago

    When you are sick, my advice for you is to go to a dual diagnosis treatment center as soon as possible. You don't want any surprise, right? Even a simple cold left untreated, well, it can cause serious problems.

  7. Satyabrata

    1 year ago

    In this world where, addiction problem is becoming a huge concern, we need a gadget that could keep people off drugs. Sometimes addiction takes severe form, due to some mental health problem. Dual diagnosis rehab like dual diagnosis rehab Florida is the ideal place to get treatment for such condition.

  8. its_me

    1 year ago

    In your next post do write about some more gadgets like these. If gadgets like these keep being invented then the future is really bright. Many our health problems could be controlled. My friend has drug addiction problem; she needs to be admitted to a drug rehab. I am looking for information on best drug rehab facilities.

  9. pradipta01

    1 year ago

    Our health care would become hi tech with these gadgets. That means, we could be expecting error free diagnosis, tests results would be accurate. So better health care awaits us in the future. But it is also important to make these more affordable. So that every one can access these facilities. I was searching for, detailed information on Drug Rehab Facility, when I saw your post.

  10. Satyabrata

    1 year ago

    In you next post do write about some more cool gadgets. These gadgets have great utility. May be we could get to see advanced versions of these gadgets available in stores. I was recently reading about a drug addiction treatment program; this is called holistic drug treatment available at Florida holistic drug rehab.

  11. its_me

    1 year ago

    These are fantastic gadgets. But if there were a gadget which would give you the answers to all your health queries, I think that would be much better. For instance, if you need the address of a specialist in your locality, or address of special treatment facility like methamphetamine rehab that offer methamphetamine detox treatment, you would get that in a jiffy.

  12. pradipta01

    1 year ago

    It would be wonderful if a health care facility has all the gadgets mentioned here. What we need now is a hi tech treatment center near every locality. So that we could be better equipped to fight diseases. There are many drug rehabs now; I have heard that some of them offer special treatment.

  13. Satyabrata

    1 year ago

    Having a first aid kit is mandatory; if it is hi tech then that is even better. We need to move on towards advanced facilities. In the field of addiction treatment there have been outstanding improvements. Those with problem of alcohol addiction can expect better treatment facilities at an alcohol treatment center.

  14. its_me

    1 year ago

    You never know when a medical emergency surfaces; so if you have a gadget with emergency numbers, then you would be able to handle the situation. In certain situations we hardly know where to go for treatment; addiction is one such situation. We know there are rehabs but, we hardly know the contact number or the address. So collect the number of rehab facility in your locality. If you are from Florida then you need to have the contact number of Florida alcohol rehab.

  15. pradipta01

    1 year ago

    To be a survivor you would need something else apart from gadgets, it is your common sense. Some people definitely do not have that; mostly young people. They fall for drugs. In fact celebrities too check into drug rehab centers to recover from addiction.

  16. prabir

    1 year ago

    To get better solutions we need to keep moving to newer grounds. The age we are living in, is way better; there was a time, when basic medical facilities were not available to people; now we have health care centers even in remote places; now we also have access to specialized treatment center like alcohol rehab center.

  17. ved12

    1 year ago

    Problem is drug addiction is becoming a very serious issue and there are number of people are get addicted to drugs like cocaine. Cocaine addiction is addiction is also very much bad and dangerous for health.
    http://www.controllingaddiction.net/articles/drug-addiction/cocaine

  18. Aramel

    1 year ago

    Do you happen to know if this application can help me with threelac candida?I would definitely need as much help as I can get because as I heard this thing doesn't disappear very fast.

  19. prabir

    1 year ago

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